Jodie Foster, a Yale undergraduate short circuited her silver screen fantasy, addressing the disparity of the haves andhave-nots on our minor planet.
“Indeed! Throw her a Frisbee, Major Fenton.”
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Needless to say, the actress found just the right vehicle a la the Mir to delineate the 21st century handicaps and hiccups as themortals on our minor planet, face up to their transgressions in a shuttle to Mir. Or a facsimile space lab…...
To escape their gravity laden identities and pursue their face lifts from outside the galaxy….in outer space.
Spacing out in space modules may mean different things to different people but to a skull and bones Yalie, the terrain where Jodie can probe the self serving greed and ego trips that give rise to a intimidation and confusion in a once wondrous joy our nation provided before the dust bowl, the two great wars, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan, and the 9/11 terrorist murders at the twin towers..
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The dichotomy of the Mir escape and the brain washing the fleeing mortals dreaded, gives rise to the apparition s and delusions the humans left behind suffer. A breath of fresh air, in the fabric of disillusionment, challenges by original thinkers like Ms Foster thrive on.
Assaulting the Alpine peaks As Ronald Coleman did in FrankCapra’s “Lost Horizon”.(James Hilton) Yet after Wars to end all wars and aforementioned invasions, the weaknesses and moral infidelities on our Continent are still with us like the plague, only accentuated in cyber space.
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Ms Foster discovered the theme that goes right to the soul of thecosmos. An industrialism once full of promise is exhumed in the studio lab and seen from the sci-fi “scalpel of Doctor Jodie!”
The vacuity of the idiot boxes only resonates in the enlightenment her persona lends to Madame Lafarge discardingher knitting, joining Rousseau’s French Revolution.(Dickens “Tale of two cities”)
That it no longer is a Dale Carnegie “How to win friends and influence people” A cloak and dagger game unless Jodie’s skull and bone Rudy Valleys, can unleash the pain the have-nots haveendured, frustrating their motivations…“Stop the world, I want to get off”, Shubert theatre, New Haven, Connecticut..
Our “The Monkey from Mars” (Long Beach Teachers Journal, Sol Kaufler, editor) a melee from our saber tooth tiger yesterdays, throwing the Frisbee on the Yale- New Haven Green, off Chapel Street.
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Meanwhile Mayor Bloomberg, Police Commissioner Kellydown the road, are throwing the dice on an appeal to a higher Federal Court. A lower court holding their Stop and Frisk police power and practice is unconstitutional. Suspects of race andcolor denied their right to enjoy, assemble, without the uniformed cop stopping their growth and development.(Darwin’s Evolution?)
“Whoever said this isn’t a police state?”
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“39 Steps””Suspicion” Hitchcock creating a straw man for the audience to presume ,suspect a “heavy” or a villain” and thus avoid the uniformed voice of authority to unmask the role player: “machina et deux, suspending the disbelief.
“Scarface” Paul Muni’s gangster persona, George Raft flipping the half dollar as his henchman, Eastwood’s “Dirty Harry”, Kirk Douglas’s “Detective Story”
Playing out their personas in civvies.
Is any plainclothesman locking the cell door and throwing away the key? A suspect is charged with a crime. Committing a crime per se. But as one may interpret in Jody Foster’s tour de force “Stop and frisk”, doesn’t suspend disbelief. Or does it, in curbing criminal anti social behavior?.
A history that replicates December 7 1941 morphing as 9/11 Twin Towers ambush from the air, innocents being given their last breaths, without knowing what hit them.
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“Halt and frisk” may undermine the pleasure principle but living among addicts on heroin, cocaine, mescaline, the latest LSD import, you name it. The 21st century has gone through the ceiling of cyber space and unto Jodie Foster’s scenario.
Seeing the have-have not dichotomy for what it is and the lives it puts in disarray….this isn’t a brief for “stop and frisk”.However in the Jodie Forster tempo of our times, a sightseer on New Haven’s Chapel Street, won’t see her catching Major Fenton’s Frisbee on the green.
On the Yale New Haven Green, off Chapel Street…the Frisbee sailing through the skies… Stratford on the Avon, Chapel Street,August 18, 2013.
